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GtrsRGr8 · 11-23-2016, 02:28 AM

Today's freebie from YourClassical comes from a Naxos compilation album, Thanksgiving: Songs of Praise.

The free piece from the album is a Felix Mendelssohn composition - Symphony No. 5: IV. Choral ein "feste Burg ist unser Gott".

I referred, earlier, to the album being a Naxos compilation album. It seems that it must be, because Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Yet, the free piece and the rest of the album are compositions by non-Americans and it is performed by an Irish orchestra. The pieces on the album must have been selected and compiled by Naxos in honor of the holiday, and when composed had nothing to do with Thanksgiving.

The piece is performed by the Ireland National Symphony Orchestra. As performed, the piece runs 8 minutes, 44 seconds in length. Credit for conducting the pieces that make up the album goes to Reinhard Seifried.

If you're interested in knowing more about the entire album, there is a dedicated Naxos webpage from which you can learn more. There does not appear to be much in the way of reviews on that webpage or any other that I could find.

You can either (or both) stream the MP3 piece or download it, by navigating to the dedicated YourClassical daily download webpage for the piece. Both the stream bar and the "Direct MP3 download link" are plain to see.

Purple Lady · 11-23-2016, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Manabi

It's at https://play.google.com/settings

Thanks.

GtrsRGr8 · 11-24-2016, 02:03 AM

Naxos has an album in their "American Classics" series called The 18th Century American Overture - Hewitt - Carr - Reinagle. Today, we are privileged to stream or download free, if we so desire, Alexander Reinagle's Occasional Overture from that album. This comes courtesy of YourClassical and perhaps other organizations.

Sometimes it is difficult to decipher information given about the albums and free pieces, but it appears that the whole album is performed by Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla, with Patrick Gallois doing the conducting.

Naxos has a webpage that is chock-full of additional information about the entire album, located here. Among the many helpful things that you can find on that webpage is a link to reviews of the album.

To either stream or download the free 7 minute, 40 second MP3 piece, you need to go to this webpage. You'll see the streaming apparatus and then just a short distance below it a "Direct MP3 download link." Clicking on that will cause the piece to automatically download to your computer.

Being the unsophisticated bumpkin that I am, I had never heard Alexander Reinagle, that I remember. His Occasional Overture is pleasant (it makes me wonder why he didn't play it more than occasionally. ha). Hope you enjoy it, and happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S.

tubemonkey · 11-24-2016, 09:43 AM

Spotify Premium is on sale for $9.99/ 3 months (normally $9.99/mo).

Quote:

Only $9.99/month after. Offer not available to users who canceled Premium after 10/21.

Spotify® Re-Engagement Offer Terms and Conditions

Spoiler:

This offer (the “Re-Engagement Offer”), which is made to you by Spotify (as defined in the Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use), entitles you to access the Spotify Premium Service (as defined in the Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use) for a period of three (3) months from the moment that you activate such period by submitting your payment details and paying the advertised price (the “Offer Period”). By submitting your payment details, you (i) accept the Re-Engagement Offer, (ii) consent to us using your payment details in accordance with our Privacy Policy, (iii) acknowledge and agree to Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use and these Re-Engagement Offer Terms and Conditions. If you decide that you do not want to become a paying user of the Spotify Premium Service, you have to cancel your subscription to the Premium Service by logging into your Spotify account and following the prompts on the Account page, or by clicking here and following the instructions, prior to the end of your Offer Period. Otherwise, at the end of your Offer Period, you will automatically become a paying user of the Spotify Premium Service, and the credit card you provided will automatically be charged the Spotify Premium subscription fee each month, until you cancel your Premium Service subscription. If you wish to cancel your Premium Service subscription after the end of your Free Trial Period, you may do so by following the instructions above. There are no refunds or credits for partial monthly subscriptions. If Spotify increases the monthly fee in the future, we will provide you notice. Price changes will take effect at the start of the next subscription period following the date of the price change. By continuing to use the Spotify Service after the price change takes effect, you accept the new price.

This Re-Engagement Offer is limited to those users who subscribed to the Premium or Unlimited service before the date shown in the offer. If you subscribed to the Premium or Unlimited service on or after this date, you are ineligible for this Re-Engagement Offer. Current Spotify Premium Subscribers are also ineligible for this Re-Engagement Offer. The Spotify service may not be available on certain personal devices. Neither prepaid cards nor Spotify gift cards can be used as a valid payment method for this offer.

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koland · 11-24-2016, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Spotify Premium is on sale for $9.99/ 3 months (normally $9.99/mo).

Quote:

Only $9.99/month after. Offer not available to users who canceled Premium after 10/21.

My offer says:

"We want to thank you for using Spotify in 2016 — with 3 months of Premium for just $9.99."

https://www.spotify.com/us/comeback/

Spoiler:

So, different links, same offer. And just as my free Google Play and Sirius XM is expiring... what to do, what to do?

I know, ignore them and wait for a better deal (or just listen to Amazon Prime or maybe the days and days of music on my server ....)

tubemonkey · 11-24-2016, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by koland

My offer says:

"We want to thank you for using Spotify in 2016 — with 3 months of Premium for just $9.99."

https://www.spotify.com/us/comeback/

Spoiler:

So, different links, same offer. And just as my free Google Play and Sirius XM is expiring... what to do, what to do?

I know, ignore them and wait for a better deal (or just listen to Amazon Prime or maybe the days and days of music on my server ....)

Interesting, I pulled the offer off Spotify's homepage.

I've been doing free offers lately (Spotify, Pandora, Groove Music, YT Music, Music Unlim) and have been spoiled by their huge catalogs compared to Prime Music.

I just finished a free month of Music Unlimited and planned on getting their family plan, but changed my mind after they wanted all family members to share the billing credit card for Amazon purchases. The Jeff has lost his mind if he thinks this monkey will ever do that.

So Spotify Family will now get my business, but first I think I'll give this promo a try and see if the family likes it before I take the final plunge.

GtrsRGr8 · 11-24-2016, 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

<snip>
I've been doing free offers lately (Spotify, Pandora, Groove Music, YT Music, Music Unlim) and have been spoiled by their huge catalogs compared to Prime Music.
<snip>

Would you like one more music subscription service to add to the mountain? Soundcloud.com.

This is over my pay grade, but it looks like they allow artists to upload their stuff. But, they do have the popular artists/popular hits, too. So, it has a little bit different M.O. from the usual service. It might not be the kind of thing that any MobileReader would be interested in, but who knows?

They do have a trial subscription promo, of course.

tubemonkey · 11-24-2016, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Would you like one more music subscription service to add to the mountain? Soundcloud.com.

This is over my pay grade, but it looks like they allow artists to upload their stuff. But, they do have the popular artists/popular hits, too. So, it has a little bit different M.O. from the usual service. It might not be the kind of thing that any MobileReader would be interested in, but who knows?

They do have a trial subscription promo, of course.

Thanks, I've seen it before, but not interested. I need a music subscription with a native app on the Echo that can be set as the default app for my music library. Only Amazon Music and Spotify are capable of doing that. So that limits my choice to those two subscription services.

Conan46 · 11-24-2016, 05:57 PM

Google Play has 50% off the purchase price of any movie right now. Just go to the Google Play Store.

AnemicOak · 11-24-2016, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Conan46

Google Play has 50% off the purchase price of any movie right now. Just go to the Google Play Store.

Just a note. This is targeted to only some accounts so you may or may not have the offer when you go to Google Play.

GtrsRGr8 · 11-24-2016, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Thanks, I've seen it before, but not interested. I need a music subscription with a native app on the Echo that can be set as the default app for my music library. Only Amazon Music and Spotify are capable of doing that. So that limits my choice to those two subscription services.

Fine. Just wanted to make sure that people were aware of the existence of this site.

tubemonkey · 11-24-2016, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Fine. Just wanted to make sure that people were aware of the existence of this site.

Their current promo:

SoundCloud Go

Quote:

3 months for $1

It's deal season! Save over $28 and get offline listening, 135M tracks, and more.

Limited time offer ends Monday. $9.99/month after 3 months

GtrsRGr8 · 11-24-2016, 07:29 PM

Itunes sells ebooks, too (I think--I don't think that I ever bought one from them), and maybe some other things. But the first thing that comes to mind when I think of iTunes is downloadable music.

Well, you can get 20% off of any 2 iTunes gift cards at Dollar General. I am sure that there is more fine print than this, but all that I see with the advertisement is that it "excludes variable $15-$500 card" (what does that mean? A card that has its value put on the card at checkout? That's all that I can think of). I have no idea what the smallest denomination or largest denomination of iTune gift cards are that you can purchase at Dollar General store.

I don't think that Dollar General have a brick-and-mortar store presence nationally yet, but I think that they pretty well saturate most of the area east of the Mississippi River. They do have a fledgling online business, but iTunes gift cards are apparently not one of the things that either they sell online or that these cards' discount apply to online purchases, according to the advertisement that I'm viewing.

If you have a long list of songs that you've been wanting to purchase from iTunes, but would like some kind of discount before going ahead and purchasing, this might be a good opportunity to do that.

GtrsRGr8 · 11-24-2016, 07:42 PM

I saw Conan46's post about Google Play movies, but I haven't seen anything about this Google Play music deal, including on the O.P.

It's a better deal than I've seen in quite a while. The deal is on their "Unlimited" (similar to others' premium plans, I think). The free term is a whopping 4 months! After the 4 months is over, the plan is just $9.99/month.

One of the questions peeps seem to have when they're checking into music subscription services is, "how big is the catalog?" Well, Google Play claims that you can "access 35 million songs." Of those 35 million, it seems, you can "add up to 50,000 songs from your computer and stream them anywhere for free."

Google Play does have, like all or most of its competitors, a free plan, also.

Find out probably everything that you need to know at this Google Play website.

UPDATE: Okay, Google Play is not being a nice person to play with. If you go to the link that I gave above, you will get a completely different webpage than I got initially, the one upon which I based my post above. And I typed the URL exactly as that of the website that opened for me! So, here are a couple of things to try: 1) scroll down to the very bottom of that webpage. There may be a button inviting you to subscribe; if so, click on it. That worked the first time that I tried it, but not the second time. 2) If that fails, look for a menu icon in the extreme lefthand corner. Click on it. I got an option to subscribe, and it took me to a webpage identical to the very first one that I got. The upshot is, you'll get all of the information that I got, and the opportunity to get the special trial period terms.

tubemonkey · 11-24-2016, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I saw Conan46's post about Google Play movies, but I haven't seen anything about this Google Play music deal, including on the O.P.

It's a better deal than I've seen in quite a while. The deal is on their "Unlimited" (similar to others' premium plans, I think). The free term is a whopping 4 months! After the 4 months is over, the plan is just $9.99/month.

One of the questions peeps seem to have when they're checking into music subscription services is, "how big is the catalog?" Well, Google Play claims that you can "access 35 million songs." Of those 35 million, it seems, you can "add up to 50,000 songs from your computer and stream them anywhere for free."

Google Play does have, like all or most of its competitors, a free plan, also.

Find out probably everything that you need to know at this Google Play website.

UPDATE: Okay, Google Play is not being a nice person to play with. If you go to the link that I gave above, you will get a completely different webpage than I got initially, the one upon which I based my post above. And I typed the URL exactly as that of the website that opened for me! So, here are a couple of things to try: 1) scroll down to the very bottom of that webpage. There may be a button inviting you to subscribe; if so, click on it. That worked the first time that I tried it, but not the second time. 2) If that fails, look for a menu icon in the extreme lefthand corner. Click on it. I got an option to subscribe, and it took me to a webpage identical to the very first one that I got. The upshot is, you'll get all of the information that I got, and the opportunity to get the special trial period terms.

A big thank you

Didn't see that offer. Sign up successful.

11-24-2016, 02:03 AM	#1113
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Naxos has an album in their "American Classics" series called The 18th Century American Overture - Hewitt - Carr - Reinagle. Today, we are privileged to stream or download free, if we so desire, Alexander Reinagle's Occasional Overture from that album. This comes courtesy of YourClassical and perhaps other organizations. Sometimes it is difficult to decipher information given about the albums and free pieces, but it appears that the whole album is performed by Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla, with Patrick Gallois doing the conducting. Naxos has a webpage that is chock-full of additional information about the entire album, located here. Among the many helpful things that you can find on that webpage is a link to reviews of the album. To either stream or download the free 7 minute, 40 second MP3 piece, you need to go to this webpage. You'll see the streaming apparatus and then just a short distance below it a "Direct MP3 download link." Clicking on that will cause the piece to automatically download to your computer. Being the unsophisticated bumpkin that I am, I had never heard Alexander Reinagle, that I remember. His Occasional Overture is pleasant (it makes me wonder why he didn't play it more than occasionally. ha). Hope you enjoy it, and happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 11-24-2016 at 02:06 AM.

11-24-2016, 07:29 PM	#1123
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	20% iTunes Gift Cards at Dollar General Stores. Minor Exclusions Apply. Itunes sells ebooks, too (I think--I don't think that I ever bought one from them), and maybe some other things. But the first thing that comes to mind when I think of iTunes is downloadable music. Well, you can get 20% off of any 2 iTunes gift cards at Dollar General. I am sure that there is more fine print than this, but all that I see with the advertisement is that it "excludes variable $15-$500 card" (what does that mean? A card that has its value put on the card at checkout? That's all that I can think of). I have no idea what the smallest denomination or largest denomination of iTune gift cards are that you can purchase at Dollar General store. I don't think that Dollar General have a brick-and-mortar store presence nationally yet, but I think that they pretty well saturate most of the area east of the Mississippi River. They do have a fledgling online business, but iTunes gift cards are apparently not one of the things that either they sell online or that these cards' discount apply to online purchases, according to the advertisement that I'm viewing. If you have a long list of songs that you've been wanting to purchase from iTunes, but would like some kind of discount before going ahead and purchasing, this might be a good opportunity to do that.

11-24-2016, 07:42 PM	#1124
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	First 4 Months FREE on Google Play Music's Premium Plan. Just $9.99/Month Afterwards. I saw Conan46's post about Google Play movies, but I haven't seen anything about this Google Play music deal, including on the O.P. It's a better deal than I've seen in quite a while. The deal is on their "Unlimited" (similar to others' premium plans, I think). The free term is a whopping 4 months! After the 4 months is over, the plan is just $9.99/month. One of the questions peeps seem to have when they're checking into music subscription services is, "how big is the catalog?" Well, Google Play claims that you can "access 35 million songs." Of those 35 million, it seems, you can "add up to 50,000 songs from your computer and stream them anywhere for free." Google Play does have, like all or most of its competitors, a free plan, also. Find out probably everything that you need to know at this Google Play website. UPDATE: Okay, Google Play is not being a nice person to play with. If you go to the link that I gave above, you will get a completely different webpage than I got initially, the one upon which I based my post above. And I typed the URL exactly as that of the website that opened for me! So, here are a couple of things to try: 1) scroll down to the very bottom of that webpage. There may be a button inviting you to subscribe; if so, click on it. That worked the first time that I tried it, but not the second time. 2) If that fails, look for a menu icon in the extreme lefthand corner. Click on it. I got an option to subscribe, and it took me to a webpage identical to the very first one that I got. The upshot is, you'll get all of the information that I got, and the opportunity to get the special trial period terms. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 11-24-2016 at 07:56 PM.

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11-23-2016, 02:28 AM	#1111
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	Today's freebie from YourClassical comes from a Naxos compilation album, Thanksgiving: Songs of Praise. The free piece from the album is a Felix Mendelssohn composition - Symphony No. 5: IV. Choral ein "feste Burg ist unser Gott". I referred, earlier, to the album being a Naxos compilation album. It seems that it must be, because Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday. Yet, the free piece and the rest of the album are compositions by non-Americans and it is performed by an Irish orchestra. The pieces on the album must have been selected and compiled by Naxos in honor of the holiday, and when composed had nothing to do with Thanksgiving. The piece is performed by the Ireland National Symphony Orchestra. As performed, the piece runs 8 minutes, 44 seconds in length. Credit for conducting the pieces that make up the album goes to Reinhard Seifried. If you're interested in knowing more about the entire album, there is a dedicated Naxos webpage from which you can learn more. There does not appear to be much in the way of reviews on that webpage or any other that I could find. You can either (or both) stream the MP3 piece or download it, by navigating to the dedicated YourClassical daily download webpage for the piece. Both the stream bar and the "Direct MP3 download link" are plain to see.

11-24-2016, 05:57 PM	#1119
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